NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018. TESS is good at finding exoplanets, but the spacecraft is a powerful scientific platform, and it’s made other discoveries, too. Scientists working with TESS recently announced 97 quadruple star candidates, nearly doubling the number of known quadruple systems.
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Soar over the desert in footage from drone practicing for mission to Saturn's strangest moon
The team tested images and sensors ahead of flying to the moon of Saturn.
Astronomers discover massive radio galaxy 100 times larger than the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered the largest radio galaxy ever, stretching at least 16 million light-years through space, new research shows.
What is Space?
Space is the zone above and around our planet where there is no air to breathe or to scatter light. Space is a vacuum, but it is far from empty.
Mount Etna is erupting and astronauts are watching it from space
The Sicilian volcano is 'smoking' and 'spitting lava,' one astronaut reports.
James Webb Space Telescope has locked onto guide star in crucial milestone
The fine-guidance instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.
Progress supply freighter docks with space station
Russia’s Progress MS-19 supply ship closes in on the International Space Station on Thursday. Credit: Roscosmos
Two days after launching from Kazakhstan, a Russian Progress cargo freighter docked with the International Space Station on autopilot Thursday with a fresh delivery of food, crew supplies, experiments, and CubeSats that will be released outside the complex on a future spacewalk.
The astronaut's playlist: Groovy songs for space travelers
These tunes are out of this world.
NASA's InSight Mars lander bounces back from dust storm, but its days are numbered
NASA's InSight Mars lander has shaken off the effects of a recent dust storm, likely allowing the spacecraft to collect science data for a few more months.
Scientists spot 10,000th medium near-Earth asteroid in planetary defense milestone
Scientists watching the skies for asteroids that may threaten Earth have hit a new milestone, spotting the 10,000th sizable space rock that circles the sun near Earth's orbit.
What's the maximum number of planets that could orbit the sun?
If a super-advanced civilization had to ability to engineer the solar system from scratch, how many planets could they squeeze around the sun?
Russian Progress freighter delivers 2.8 tons of supplies to International Space Station
A Russian cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday morning (Feb. 17), delivering nearly 3 tons of supplies and equipment to the orbiting lab.
One of Life’s Building Blocks can Form in Space
Peptides are one of the smallest biomolecules and are one of life’s critical building blocks. New research shows that they could form on the surfaces of icy grains in space. This discovery lends credence to the idea that meteoroids, asteroids, or comets could have given life on Earth a kick start by crashing into the planet and delivering biological building blocks.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suffers camera glitch, stalling science
A prolific NASA space telescope has closed its camera eye for now due to a power issue that has stalled the observatory's science work.
China aims to complete space station, break launch record in 2022
China has achieved a great deal in the final frontier recently, and the new document makes clear that the country plans to build aggressively on those successes.
New atomic clock loses only one second every 300 billion years
A group of physicists has announced one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever made.
The First Image From NASA’s new X-ray Observatory
It’s first light for one of the newest space observatories! The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer team has released their first image, taken after a month-long commissioning phase for the spacecraft. And it’s a beauty.
How did Earth get its water? Moon rocks suggest it might have been here all along.
The water that Earth has may have been here since the planet formed, and not delivered later by collisions with icy comets, a new study finds.
Final space shuttle crewmates among three entering Astronaut Hall of Fame
An astronaut who launched on the first space shuttle to fly with a full crew and two crew members who flew on the last space shuttle to launch will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Josef Aschbacher’s speech at the ESA Council meeting
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ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher speaks at the start of the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, part of the Space Summit in Toulouse, on 16 February 2022.
Luca Parmitano presents the European Astronauts’ Manifesto
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ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano presents the European Astronauts’ Manifesto during the Space Summit in Toulouse, on 16 February 2022.
